tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post6385792824521519836..comments2016-03-09T11:32:05.283-05:00Comments on GROGNARDIA: Pulp Fantasy Library: The MoundJames Maliszewskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00341941102398271464noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-88161751256804578562011-12-04T19:46:25.936-05:002011-12-04T19:46:25.936-05:00I have an Arkham House collection with The Mound a...I have an Arkham House collection with The Mound and it is one of HPL most unnerving stories. Those weird man-horses still freak me out!Taskboy3000https://www.blogger.com/profile/08847388615721715893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-82091019301882528502011-04-08T22:31:47.047-04:002011-04-08T22:31:47.047-04:00To semiprometheus
And let&#39;s not forget the on...To semiprometheus<br /><br />And let&#39;s not forget the one on the top of all...mankind.<br /><br />Whose members don&#39;t dare enter K&#39;n-yan,just as the people of K&#39;n-yan don&#39;t dare enter the underground.<br /><br />The one to follow,according to Lovecraft&#39;s ideals?<br /><br />Hard to find a Lovecraft work not outlining his political/social/racial ideals,which admittedly verge towards elitism and authoritarianism.<br /><br />To the point that in my opinion his works can also be considered political commentaries.m4trix87http://m4trix87.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-8423606244618988712010-09-04T16:30:31.615-04:002010-09-04T16:30:31.615-04:00&quot;The Mound&quot; was reprinted in The Horror ...&quot;The Mound&quot; was reprinted in The Horror In The Museum. The Loved Dead is a later volume of revisions.<br /><br />There&#39;s also a lot (most?) of HPL at http://www.hplovecraft.com/. &quot;The Mound&quot; is at<br />http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/mo.aspKenRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08725862005855716777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-36720905193671530052010-09-01T15:12:42.961-04:002010-09-01T15:12:42.961-04:00Glad to see that I&#39;m not the only one who like...Glad to see that I&#39;m not the only one who likes &quot;The Mound,&quot; out of HPL&#39;s various uneven revisions. It would make for a spectacular megadungeon, just like Huth above is apparently hard at work upon.NetherWerkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08361800925618339097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-18326353246973992172010-09-01T06:36:03.041-04:002010-09-01T06:36:03.041-04:00I really like The Mound out of Lovecraft&#39;s col...I really like The Mound out of Lovecraft&#39;s collaborations though I&#39;ll have to check out the full version that you mention James as I&#39;d only seen the <i>Weird Tales</i> version. It is excellent for the evocation of an alien society and the ending does give me a frisson even now, though I know whats coming.Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11587938750309743961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-87093043147510318982010-08-31T21:43:38.809-04:002010-08-31T21:43:38.809-04:00I read The Mound in nearly two decades and noticed...I read The Mound in nearly two decades and noticed it is a volume I recently purchased. Been on a Lovecraft reading kick. In that endeavor I must admit that Lovecraft does lost/decayed civilizations very well. As an adult I really liked the atmosphere of The Nameless City.fauxcryehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13772555578908486849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-9841879298718781082010-08-31T19:47:29.058-04:002010-08-31T19:47:29.058-04:00I only recently read this, and (while I liked it) ...I only recently read this, and (while I liked it) it read like HPL describing the plot and setting of an A. Merritt story. Merritt would probably have made Zamacona the protagonist/narrator, rather than the subject of a later investigation.<br /><br />To me, Merritt&#39;s writing is the best example of &quot;proto Gygaxian&quot; in terms of style and subject matter.Scallop Skulled Skaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09614954870582728737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-6130289881973736592010-08-31T14:38:21.683-04:002010-08-31T14:38:21.683-04:00Jon, I agree entirely. That story is also in the ...Jon, I agree entirely. That story is also in the book I found The Mound in, I think it&#39;s called &quot;The Loved Dead&quot; and the story is &quot;Medusa&#39;s Coil&quot;. Ugh. Nothing subtle about the racism in that story.Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17116795932377593506noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-60473914877305518992010-08-31T11:41:38.555-04:002010-08-31T11:41:38.555-04:00The Mound was quite good. The worst of HPL&#39;s &...The Mound was quite good. The worst of HPL&#39;s &#39;rewrites&#39;, I think also for Bishop, was the one where the shocking horrific reveal at the end was not that the foreign wife was an ancient creature whose hair had a murderous life of its own, no, the shocking reveal was that she was actually black.<br /><br />That was f&#39;ed up.Jon Hendryhttp://openid.aol.com/jonhendry2noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-53698945560369793282010-08-31T10:57:27.312-04:002010-08-31T10:57:27.312-04:00Zealia Bishop has freely admitted that The Mound i...Zealia Bishop has freely admitted that The Mound is 100% by Lovecraft. She merely mentioned to him the idea of a story of a headless ghost haunting an Indian mound.<br /><br />The Mound is my 3rd favorite of all of Lovecraft&#39;s stories (with my 2nd being The Shadow out of Time and my 1st being At the Mountains of Madness).<br /><br />The Mound is so good that, for a time, I contemplated basing Supplement V: CARCOSA solely on The Mound, rather than being inspired by the wider Lovecraftian/Derlethian Mythos.Geoffreyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16161800901863646891noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-29136710704048650072010-08-31T10:39:59.496-04:002010-08-31T10:39:59.496-04:00I also discovered &quot;The Mound&quot; for the fi...I also discovered &quot;The Mound&quot; for the first time, also from a collection at Half Price Books (no doubt the same edition). I have the same appreciation for it now, and in many ways prefer it to At the Mountains of Madness. <br /><br />Another thing I appreciated was that he left us wanting more. I really wanted to learn more about the deeper worlds beneath K&#39;n-yan.Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17116795932377593506noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-46332843666901523002010-08-31T09:15:35.598-04:002010-08-31T09:15:35.598-04:00&quot;The Mound&quot; and &quot;In the Walls of Er...&quot;The Mound&quot; and &quot;In the Walls of Eryx&quot; are my favorites of Lovecraft&#39;s collaborations/re-writes as well, and I feel they both stand up to anything he wrote under his own name. &quot;The Mound&quot; in particular; I only read the story a few years ago, and it was a thrill to discover such an obscure major work.Elphilmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03443802251862119159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-47001874521991597152010-08-31T06:50:07.853-04:002010-08-31T06:50:07.853-04:00In some ways, &quot;The Mound&quot; by HPL reminds...In some ways, &quot;The Mound&quot; by HPL reminds me of a major theme often explored by REH. Howard was fascinated by the topic of decaying societies, and to great effect he explored this in &quot;Red Nails&quot;.Lord Ghulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08924190253360060613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-154223845169288282010-08-31T02:25:58.564-04:002010-08-31T02:25:58.564-04:00Wow. Thinking of doing a CoC campaign around that ...Wow. Thinking of doing a CoC campaign around that period.Brunomachttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14122665488285424578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-39328152759379910182010-08-31T02:00:44.851-04:002010-08-31T02:00:44.851-04:00PS I&#39;m writing a &#39;mega&#39; dungeon based ...PS I&#39;m writing a &#39;mega&#39; dungeon based loosely on The Mound.hüthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16502682297320819595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-30109836873730787772010-08-31T01:59:22.749-04:002010-08-31T01:59:22.749-04:00Both the Yithians and the Elder Things seemed to s...Both the Yithians and the Elder Things seemed to suffer from a lack of imagination concerning how aliens may develop emotions and social complexities around their own divergent biological (or, in the Yithian&#39;s case, psycho-technological) processes.hüthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16502682297320819595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-8585708190587792282010-08-31T01:45:52.693-04:002010-08-31T01:45:52.693-04:00(and another new commenter here...)
If &quot;The ...(and another new commenter here...)<br /><br />If &quot;The Walls of Eryx&quot; by HPL/Kenneth Sterling counts as one of these re-writes I&#39;m going to have to check out some more, that&#39;s a thickly atmospheric and creepy story that I think really stands out due to it&#39;s &quot;pure&quot; sci-i feel-and also, like you mentioned above, because it veers away a bit from, his own preferences.<br /><br />I&#39;d never even heard of &quot;The Mound&quot;, thanks for the write-up.Andrewhttp://openid.aol.com/andrewsftsnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-75112054572827873612010-08-31T00:52:51.528-04:002010-08-31T00:52:51.528-04:00(New commenter here.)
Not too long ago I found a ...(New commenter here.)<br /><br />Not too long ago I found a collection of Lovecraft&#39;s &quot;rewrites&quot; at Half Price Books. A few were really bad, notably some sort of classical Greek dream with no plot or edge. Even his ghostwriting for Harry Houdini, which I liked as a kid, seemed a bit lightweight.<br /><br />&quot;The Mound&quot;, though, was not only interesting in itself, but excellent food for thought. The story features not one underground realm, but another even more degenerate one below that, and a final one that scares even the people of K&#39;n-Yan. (Take that, Underdark.) Even the beginning of the story, seemingly a prairie ghost tale, provides an excellent hook to lure players from mild weirdness to the truly bizarre.semiprometheushttp://semiprometheus.livejournal.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-73647611787951042412010-08-30T23:19:55.398-04:002010-08-30T23:19:55.398-04:00I don&#39;t believe I&#39;ve read The Mound. Must ...I don&#39;t believe I&#39;ve read The Mound. Must rectify that.Anthonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01254215329246851683noreply@blogger.com